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  • Name William d'Aubeney 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1/01 Feb 1220/1  Cainell near Rome, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Wymondham Abbey, Wymondham, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6940  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father William d'Aubenay,   d. 24 Dec 1193 
    Mother Maud de Saint Hilary,   b. of Field Dalling, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 29 Sep 1176 
    Family ID F3105  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mabel of Chester 
    Children 
     1. Hugh d'Aubenay,   b. Abt 1214,   d. 7 May 1243  (Age ~ 29 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3085  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor, Judge in the King's Court, 1198, 1200, 1218, son and heir. He married MABEL OF CHESTER, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, seigneur of Montfort-l'Amaury [see CHESTER 5 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, William [4th Earl of Arundel] and Hugh [5th Earl of Arundel], and four daughters, Maud, Nichole (or Colette), Cecily, and Isabel. In 1194 he was one of the Receivers of the money raised for the king's ransom. He assisted at the Coronation of King John in 1199. In 1213 he witnessed the instrument by which King John resigned the crown of England into the hands of the Pope. He served a joint envoy to treat with the Barons in 1215. He went on Crusade in 1218 and was present at the Siege of Damietta later that year. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel, died at Cainell near Rome 1 Feb. 1220/1. His remains were conveyed to England and buried in Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
      Placitorum in Domo Capitulari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 30, 44. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1821): 330 (sub Wymondham Monastery: "Memorandum, quod Willielmus de Albaneio, pincerna regis Henrici, fundavit ecclesiam monachorum de Wymundham. Qui quidem Willielmus habuit unum filium Willielmum, comitem Arundeliae; qui Willielmus comes habuit unum filium Willelmum, comitem Sussexiae; qui Willielmus comes habuit unum filium Willielmum, comitem Sussexiæ; qui Willielmus habuit unum fratrem Hugonem, comitem Sussexiæ; qui Hugo moriebatur sine hærede de corpore suo, et quatuor sorores fuerunt propinquiores hæredes ejus, et diviserunt totum comitatum Sussexiæ inter eas: quarum unam desponsavit dominus le Fitz Allen, et aliam dominus de Montealto, et aliam domus Robertus de Tathesale, et aliam dominus de Somerie, et advocatio ecclesiæ de Wymundeham allocata fuit domino Roberto de Tateshale, et uxori ejus, tenenda de se et hæredibus suis in puram et perpetuam elemosinam; qui quidem Robertus de Tathesale, habuit filium et hadredem Robertum de Tathesale, cujus erant tres filiae, quarum unam desponsavit dominus Johannes Orby, aliam dominus de Dryby, et tertiam dominus Thomas Caily qui habuit unum filium et hæredem, scilicet Thomam Caily, qui obiit sine hærede de corpore suo, cujus sororem duxit Rogerus de Clyfton armiger prædicti Thomæ. Iste Rogerus habuit unum filium et hæredem, scilicet, dominum Adam de Clyfton, qui habuit filium et hæredem Constantinum de Clyfton, qui gabuit filium et haeredem dominum Johannem de Clyfton, qui habuit filium et hæredem Constantinum de Clyfton, qui quidem Constantinus habuit unum filium et hæredem dominum Johannem de Clyfton, qui nunc est dominus de Wymundham."). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 181-185. Coll. Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33. Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 176-177 (Knevet ped.: "Willielmus Dawbeny Comes Arundell nupcit Mabillam filiam et unam heredum Radulphi Comitis Cestrie et Lincolnie."). Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester 1 (1882): 26-33. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 67 (sub Arundel). C.P. 1 (1910): 236-238,237 (chart) (sub Arundel). Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Genealogist n.s. 34 (1918): 181-189 (William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, styled "uncle" [avunculus] of Warin de Munchensy in 1213, he being half-brother of Warin's mother, Aveline de Clare). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 10-11. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny pedigree: "Willelmus Daubeney comes de Arundell sepultus in Abbathia predicta ob. 1 lo. = [empty roundel] Mabilia filia et coh. Ranulfi co. Cestrie."). Meyer Culture of Christendom (1993): 132 (Canterbury Obituary Lists: "Kal. [Feb] [1 Feb.]. Obiit Willelmus Comes de Arundel.").
      Children of Mabel of Chester, by William d'Aubeney:
      i. HUGH D'AUBENEY, Knt., 5th Earl of Arundel, Chief Butler of England, 2nd son of William d'Aubeney, 3rd Earl of Arundel, by Mabel, 2nd daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester. He was born about 1214 (of age in 1235). He was heir in 1224 to his older brother, William d'Aubeney, 4th Earl of Arundel. He was co-heir in 1232 to his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. In 1233 he made fine with the king by 2500 marks to have the lands of his late brother, William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, until his legal age, as well as the lands which fell to Hugh by hereditary right of the lands formerly of his uncle, Ranulph, Earl of Chester and Lincoln. He married in 1234 ISABEL DE WARENNE, daughter of William de Warenne, Knt., 6th Earl of Surrey, Warden of the Cinque Ports, by Maud, daughter of William Marshal, Knt, 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Striguil), hereditary Master Marshal [see WARENNE 8 for her ancestry]. They had no issue. In 1240 he was summoned to restore the manor of Whaddon, Buckinghamshire to the king as an escheat of the Normans. Hugh stated that he, his brother, and his father had all been given livery of the lands, but, though he quoted the terms of the original grant made to his father in 1207, Whaddon was surrendered to the king. In 1242 he accompanied the King in his expedition to Guienne. SIR HUGH D'AUBENEY, Earl of Arundel, died 7 May 1243, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk. In 1244 his widow, Countess Isabel, sued Robert de Sheney for the third part of one carucate of land in Smisby, Derbyshire, and Ralph de Kenninghall for the third part of nine acres of land and one acre pf pasture in Kenninghall, Norfolk, and the one third part of 14 acres of land in Riddlesworth, Norfolk. The same year she also sued Thomas le Treys for the third part of one carucate of land in Atdeborough, Norfolk, William de Oddingseles for the third part of one-half carucate of land in Leeds, Yorkshire, Roger de Somery and Nichole his wife for the third part of two carucates of land in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, and one third part of one carucate of land in Great Tew, Oxfordshire, and Hugh le Bigod for the one third part of one carucate of land in Stoughton, Sussex. In 1249 Countess Isabel founded the Abbey of Marham, Norfolk. She presented to the church of Shenley, Buckinghamshire in 1272. In 1271 Roger de Somery was engaged in a lengthy lawsuit with her regarding the advowson of the church of Olney, Buckinghamshire; in 1273 it was noted that the patronage of the church was to remain with Roger by a concord between him and Countess Isabel. In 1277-8 Master John de Croft arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Bilsham, Sussex. In 1278-9 Nigel le Got arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her and others touching a tenement in Wymondham, Norfolk. Isabel, Countess of Arundel, died shortly before 23 Nov. 1282, and was buried at Marham, Norfolk. Blomefield Essay towards a Top. Hist. of Norfolk 1(1805): 216-218; 4 (1775): 125-128; 9 (1808): 42-59. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 743, 744 (charter of Isabel d'Aubeney, Countess of Arundel; charter witnessed by her brothers, Sir Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, Sir Hugh Bigod, and John de Warenne). Dignity of a Peer of the Realm (1826): 389-434. Hunter South Yorkshire 1 (1828): 105 (Warenne ped.). Wainright Hist. & Top. Intro. of the Wapentake of Stafford & Tickhill (1829): 168-169, 195-196 (Warenne ped.). Dallaway Hist. of the Western Div. of Sussex 2(1) (1832): 128 (Warenne ped.). Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 186-192. Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 331, 639-640. Burke Gen. Hist. of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited & Extinct Peerages (1866): 2-3 (sub Albini, Earls of Arundel). Matthew of Paris Matthæi Parisiensis 2 (Rolls Ser. 44) (1866): 477 (sub A.D. 1243: "Anno sub eodem, nonis Maii [7 May], obiit comes Harundeliæ Hugo de Albineto, in ætate juvenili, cum jam vix metas adolescentiæ pertransisset. Et apud Wimundham, in ecclesia Sanctæ Mariæ, videlicet prioratum Sancto Albano pertinentem, est sepultus, cum patribus sins dictæ ecclesiæ patronis et fundatoribus."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33. Matthew of Paris Chronica Majjora 5 (Rolls See. 57) (1880): 336-337 (Countess Isabel de Warenne, widow of Hugh d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel, styled "king's kinswoman" [regis cognate]). Flower Vis. of Yorkshire 1563-4 (H.S.P. 16) (1881): 176-177 (Knevet ped.: "Hugo Comes Arundell post mortem Willielmi fratris sin non habuit exitum et sepelitur in Abathia predicta."). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 47 (1886): 163; 48 (1887): 214. Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 68 (sub Arundel). Maitland Bracton's Note Book 3 (1887): 280-283. Grazebrook Barons of Dudley 1 (Colls. Hist. Staffs. 9(2)) (1888): 20. Ratcliff Hist. & Antiqs. of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds (1900): 415-416. C.P.R. 1272-1281 (1901): 30. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 85, 550. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 60-63. Martin Hist. of the Manor of Westhope (1909): 15-33. C.P. 1 (1910): 237 (chart), 238-239 (sub Arundel). Round King's Serjeants & Officers of State (1911): 140-165. Clay Extinct & Dormant Peerages (1913): 236-238 (sub Warenne). Farnham Leicestershire Medieval Pleas. (1925): 11 (ped. of Earls of Chester). VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 435-442. Romania 55 (1929): 332-381. Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny ped.: "Hugo comes Atundell post mortem Willelmi fratris sin non habuit exitum et sepelitur in abbathia predicta ob. 28 H. 3. = filia domini [left blank]."). C.C.R. 1268-1272 (1938): 391-392. Paget Baronage of England (1957) 12: 1-6 (sub Aubigny). C.R.R. 16 (1979): 499; 18 (1999): 151-152, 216, 222, 241, 247, 261, 310. VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 194-208. Gee Women, Art & Patronage from Henry III to Edward III: 1216-1377 (2002): 157. Morris Bigod Earls of NoRFolk in the 13th Cent. (2005): opp. 1 (chart). Henry III Fine Rolls Project (R[anulph] Earl of Chester and Lincoln styled "uncle" of Hugh d'Aubeney, brother and heir of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Arundel in a fine roll item dated 1233) (abs. of record available at www.finerollshenry3.org.uk/content/calendar/roll_033.htm1).
      ii. MAUD D'AUBENEY [see next].
      iii. NICHOLE (or COLETTE) D'AUBENEY, married ROGER DE SOMERY, Knt., of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see SOMERY 3].
      iv. CECILY D'AUBENEY; married ROGER DE MOHAUT, Knt., of Mold, Cheshire, Castle Rising, Norfolk, etc. [see MORLEY 6].
      v. ISABEL D'AUBENEY, married JOHN FITZ ALAN, of Clun and Oswestry, Shropshire [see FITZ ALAN 6].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “HUGH, 6th Earl of Chester, hereditary Vicomte of Avranches in Normandy, seigneur of Saint Sever and Briquessart, son and heir, born about 1141 (of age in 1162). He is sometimes called Hugh of Cyfeiliog, because, according to a late writer, he was born in that district of Wales. According to the chronicler, John of Hexham, it was agreed at Carlisle in 1150 that a son of Ranulph, Earl of Chester, should marry one of the daughters of Henry, son of the king of Scotland. The son of Earl Ranulph was presumably his eldest son, Hugh. The projected marriage never took place. In the period, 1154-7, Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud, gave Styvechale (south of Coventry) to Walter, Bishop of Chester, and his successors for the absolution of Hugh's father, Lord Earl Ranulph, and the redemption of his soul and that of his ancestors. Sometime in the period, 1155- 63, the king ordered Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud, to give to the Abbot and monks of Gloucester the rents which Hugh's father, Earl Ranulph, gave them in the mills of Oldney and Tadwell. He was present in 1163 at Dover for King Henry II's renewal of the Flemish money fief, and also attended the Council of Clarendon in January 1164. Sometime in the period, 1166-87, he confirmed the former grant made to Saint-Etienne Abbey, Caen by Ranulph, Vicomte of Bayeux, his ancestor, of all the land the said Ranulph possessed at Bretteville-l'Orgueilleuse. He married in 1169 BERTRADE DE MONTFORT, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, seigneur of Montfort-l'Amaury, by his wife, Maud. She was born about 1156 (aged 29 in 1185). They had one son, Ranulph, Knt. [Earl of Chester and Lincoln], and five daughters, Maud, Mabel, Agnes, Hawise, and (wife of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales). By an unknown mistress (or mistresses), he also had two illegitimate sons, William (or Pain) (of Milton), and Roger, and one illegitimate daughter, Amice. Hugh joined the rebellion of King Henry II's sons in 1173. He was captured by King Henry II at Dol in August 1173. In 1174 he was deprived of his lands for rebellion. He was subsequently regranted his honours and lands at the Council of Northampton in 1177. In March 1178 he witnessed King Henry II's award in the dispute between Alfonso IX, King of Castile, and Sancho V, King of Navarre. During his lifetime, he granted some lands in the Wirral to the Abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester, and made other special gifts to Stanlow Priory, St Mary's, Coventry, and the nuns of Buffington and Greenfield priories. He also confirmed his mother's grants to her foundation of Augustinian canons at Calke, Derbyshire, and those of his father to his convent of the Benedictine nuns of St Mary's, Chester. In 1171 he confirmed the grants of his father to the Abbey of St. Stephen in the diocese of Bayeux. He likewise granted the church of Belchford, Lincolnshire to Trentham Priory, and the church of Combe, Gloucestershire to the Abbey of Bordesley, Warwickshire. HUGH, Earl of Chester, died at Leek, Staffordshire 30 June 1181, and was buried next to his father in the chapter house of St Werburgh's, Chester. Sometime in the period, 1188-99, his widow, Bertrade, witnessed a charter of her son, Ranulph, Earl of Chester. In the period, 1190-1200, she reached agreement with the abbot and convent of Troarn in Normandy regarding the construction of a mill and fishpond on the boundary between her wood and theirs. Sometime before 1194-1203, she exchanged lands with the canons of Repton. Sometime in the period, 1200-10, she granted to Ralph Carbonel, of Halton, Lincolnshire, for his homage and service a half a knight's fee which he held of the said countess in Halton. In 1223 Richard Duket and Simon de Sees brought a plea of novel disseisin against her touching a tenement in Harmston, Lincolnshire. In 1226 she presented to the church of Waddington, Lincolnshire. In 1227 she arraigned an assize of last presentation to the church of Waddington, Lincolnshire against the abbot of St. Sever. Bertrade, Countess of Chester, died in 1227, after 31 March.
      Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 217-218. Hanshall Hist. of the County Palatine of Chester (1823): 21, 28 (ped.). D'Anisy Extrait des Chartes, et autres Arles Normands ou Anglo-Normands 1 (1834): 276 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 3 (1846): 217-218 (sub Spalding Monastery - Hugonis, primi Comitis Cestriæ et Lincolniæ.... prosapia: "... post quem successit Ranulfus de Gernons filius ejus, qui moriens decimo sexto kalendas Januarii [17 December], jacet juxta patrem suum. Post hunc successit Hugo filius ejus, qui moriens secundo kalendas Julii [30 June], jacet juxta patrem suum."); 4 (1823): 314 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Bigsby Hist. & Topog. Desc. of Repton (1854): 58 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester, naming his father, Ranulf, Earl of Chester, and his grandfather, Robert, Earl of Gloucester), 59-61 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Stevenson Church Historians of England 4(1) (1856): 27 (Chronicle of John of Hexham). Luard Annales Monastici 1 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1864): 244 (Burton Annals sub A.D. 1227: "Obiit Bertrudis comitissa Cestriae."). Leycester & Mainwaring Tracts written in the Controversy respecting the Legitimacy of Amicia, daughter of Hugh Cyveliok, Earl of Chester 1-3 (Chetham Soc. 78-80) (1869). Reliquary 11 (1870-71): 196 (Harleian MS. 1486 [Derbyshire Visitation] alleges Hugh, Earl of Chester, had [illegitimate] son, William de Mylton). Ormerod Hist. of the County Palatine & City of Chester I (1882): 26-33. Cat. of a Selection from the Stowe MSS (1883): 10 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Christie Annales Cestrienses, or, Chronicle of the abbey of S. Werburg at Chester (Lancashire & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 14) (1887): 20-21 (sub A.D. 1147: "Natus comes Hugo II."), 24-25 (sub A.D. 1169: "In hoc anno factus Hugo comes Cestrie miles, eodem veto anno duxit Hugo comes Cestre uxorem filiam Simonis comitis Ebroensis nomine Bertrad quam Rex Henricus II. Angliæ ei tradidit quia ipsius cognata fuit."), 28-29 (sub A.D. 1181: "Obiit Hugo II. ij kal. Julii comes Cestre apud Lech."), 54-55 (sub A.D. 1227: "Item obiit Bertrudis comitissa Cestre."). Birch Cat. of Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 381 (seal of Bertrade, Countess of Chester dated at end of 12th Cent. - Pointed oval. Full face, tightly-fitting dress with long maunches at the wrists, standing. Legend: * SIGILL' BERTREE COMITISSE CESTRIE.). C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 156. C.P.R. 1399-1401 (1903): 296-297. Warner & Ellis Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum 1 (1903): #51 (charter of Hugh, Earl of Chester to his mother, Countess Maud, dated c.1162-7; charter names his father, Earl Ranulph), #52 (charter of Maud, Countess of Chester, dated c.1162-7, granted with consent of her son, Earl Hugh; charter names her parents, Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and Countess Mabel, and her husband, Earl Ranulph). Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 531-532. Jeayes Descriptive Catalogue of Derbyshire Charters (1906): 69, 242-245. Delisle Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d'Angleterre et Duc de Normandie (1909): 387 (biog. of Hugh, Earl of Chester). Round Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris et Puellis de XII Comitatibus [11857 (Pipe Roll Soc. 35) (1913): 15 (Date 1185: "Bertreia comitissa filia comitis de Everews, uxor Hugonis comitis Cestrie, est de donatione Domini Regis, et est .xxix. annorum."). Davis Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-12353 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 9) (1914): 154. Farrer Early Yorkshire Charters 2 (1915): 195 (chart). Tait Chartulary or Reg. of the Abbey of St. Werburgh, Chester (Chetham Soc. 82) (1923). Farrer Honors & Knights' Fees 2 (1924): 103,200. Colls. Hist. Staffs. 1924 (1926): 30-31 (charter of Earl Hugh and his mother, Countess Maud). Rpt. on the MSS of Reginald Rawdon Hastings, Esq. 1 (Hist. MSS Comm. 78) (1928): 83. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 238 (writ of King Henry II to Hugh, Earl of Chester, and Bertrade his wife dated 1177-81). Barraclough Earldom & County Palatinate of Chester (1953). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 18, 32. Barraclough Charters of the Anglo-Norman earls of Chester, c1071-1237 (Lancashire & Cheshire Rec. Soc. 126) (1988): 140-196. Johns Noblewomen, Aristocracy & Power in the 12th Cent. Anglo-Norman Realm (2003): 65-66. T. F. Tout, 'Hugh, fifth earl of Chester (1147-1181)', rev. Thomas K. Keefe, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).
      Children of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade de Montfort:
      i. RANULPH, Knt., Earl of Chester, Vicomte of Avranches in Normandy, Judge in the King's Court, 1193, Constable of Sermilly Castle, 1201-4, Constable of the Tower of Avranches, 1203, Governor of the Peak Castle and Forest, 1215, Sheriff of Lancashire, 1216-22, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1216,1217-23, Steward of the Town and Honour of Lancaster, 1216-23, Constable of Fotheringay Castle, 1221-2, Steward of the Honour of Leicester, 1222, and, in right of his 1st wife, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, son and heir, born at Oswestry in Powys c.1172. He was knighted by the king at Caen 1 Jan. 1187/8. He married (1st) 3 Feb. 1187/8 (or 1189) CONSTANCE OF BRITTANY [see BRITTANY 6], widow of Geoffrey of England, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (killed in a tournament at Paris 19 August 1186) [see ENGLAND 4.v], and daughter and heiress of Conan IV le Petit, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond, by Margaret, daughter of Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumberland [see BRITTANY 5 for her ancestry]. She was born about 1162. They had no issue. In 1194 he was commander of the forces for King Richard I. He took part in the second Coronation of King Richard I, which was solemnised in Winchester Cathedral 17 April 1194. In 1196 Ranulph captured his wife, Constance, en route to her finalizing negotiations with King Richard I and confined her at Benvron for at least a year. Soon after her release, she sought the annulment of their marriage, which was granted in 1199, presumably on grounds on consanguinity; she subsequently married (3rd) before October 1199 (as his 1st wife) GUY DE THOUARS, in right of his 1st wife, Count (or Duke) of Brittany, Earl of Richmond [see BRITTANY 6]. Constance died testate at Nantes 4 (or 5) Sept. 1201. Ranulph married (2nd) before 7 October 1200 CLEMENCE DE FOUGERES, widow of Main de Vitre (or Dinan) (died 1198), seigneur of Dinan, and daughter of Guillaume de Fougères, seigneur of Fougères, by Agatha, daughter of Guillaume du Hommet, Constable of Normandy [see FOUGERES 5 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included land in the valley of Mortain. They had no issue. He was engaged in warfare with the Welsh from 1209 to 1214. He was faithful to King John against the rebellious Barons. He was one of the executors of King John who died 19 October 1216; and one of most zealous supporters of the young king, Henry III. In 1217, as Joint Commander of the royal army, he contributed to the defeat of the rebels under the Count of Perche. He was created Earl of Lincoln 23 May 1217. He went on crusade to the Holy Land in May 1218, and distinguished himself at the Siege of Damietta. He returned to England in August 1220. In 1223 he was required to surrender his castles. In 1229 he opposed in Parliament the grant of a tenth to the Pope, and forbade its collection in his own domain. In 1229 Earl Ranulph granted tithes in Wilsford, Wiltshire, formerly held of the Earl of Lincoln, to Roger, Succentor of Salisbury. He served as Chief Commander of the royal troops in Brittany, 1230-1, and in June 1231 was a Joint Commissioner to treat with France. Sometime between April 1231 and his death, he resigned the earldom of Lincoln to his sister, Hawise de Quincy. RANULPH, Earl of Chester, died at Wallingford 28 October 1232, and was buried at St. Werburg's, Chester, his heart being interred at Dieulacres Abbey. His widow, Clemence, died in 1252. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 67-68. Madox Formulare Anglicanum (1702): 187 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester). Galia Christiana 2 (1720): 1333 (abstract of charter of Guy de Thouars dated 1208 naming his mother, Aumuz, and his wife, [Constance] Countess of Brittany). Anselme Hist. de la Maison Royale de France 1 (1725): 445-461 (sub Bretagne). Morice Méms. pour Servir de Preuves a l'Hist. de Bretagne 1 (1742): 37-38, 912-913, 917. Morice Histoire Ecclesiastique et Civil de Bretagne 1(1750): xvii-xviii (Counts of Penthievre ped). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 1 (1807): 218-220. Hanshall Hist. of the County Palatine of Chester (1823): 21-23, 28 (ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 5 (1825): 325 (charter of Ranulph, Earl of Chester dated 1230), 574- 575 (Jerveaux Abbey - Genealogy of the Counts of Richmond). Coll Top. et Gen. 2 (1835): 247-249. Extracta e Variis Cronicis Scocie (1842): 70 ("Henricus, regis Dauid filius, comes Huntyntoune et Northumbrie vxorem duxit Adam filiam Willelmi senioris, sororis Willelmi junioris comitis de Warenna, et sororem comitis Roberti Legecesterensis, et Walranni comitis de Melent, cuius mater fuit soror Rodulphi comitis de Perona, regis Francorum Ludouici consanguinea, ex qua suscepit tres inclitos filios Genuit eciam idem princeps Henricus totidem Elias ex uxore sua predicta Ada, scilicet, Adam, que lege conjugii tradita est comiti Holandie Fiorentino: secundam, Margaretam Conano duci Britannie comiti de Richmonth nuptam, ex qua genuit filiam nomine Constanciam Gaufrido, comiti Andigauie, fratri regis Anglie Richardi Primi, disponsatam, de qua Gaufridus genuit filium nomine Arthurum, postea in mare mersum, vnam eciam filiam, Aleciam nomine, que a Petro Mauclerk concepit et peperit filium, nomina Johannem, postea ducem Britannie, et aliam filiam nomine Alienoram, que cum Arthuro fratre in mare periit."). 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      ii. MAUD OF CHESTER, married DAVID OF SCOTLAND, Earl of Huntingdon [see BALLIOL 4].
      iii. MABEL OF CHESTER, married WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel [see CLIFTON 5].
      iv. AGNES OF CHESTER, married WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 4th Earl of Derby [see FERRERS 6].
      v. HAWISE OF CHESTER, Countess of Lincoln, married ROBERT DE QUINCY [see QUINCY 6.i].
      Child of Hugh, Earl of Chester, by an unknown mistress,
      vi. AMICE OF CHESTER, married RALPH DE MAINWARING, Seneschal of Chester [see AUDLEY 6].”

      3. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 2nd Earl of Arundel (or Sussex), Chief Butler of England, Privy Councillor, Constable of Windsor Castle, 1191-3, son and heir. He married before Michaelmas 1176 MAUD DE SAINT HILARY, widow of Roger de Clare (otherwise Roger Fitz Richard), 2nd Earl of Hertford (died 1173) [see CLARE 4], and daughter and heiress of James de Saint Hilary, of Field Dalling, Norfolk, by his wife, Aveline. They had three sons, William [3rd Earl of Arundel], Alan, and Godfrey (or Geoffrey), and one daughter, Maud. In 1176/7 he was confirmed as Earl of Sussex, but the Castle and Honour of Arundel were, in accordance with the policy of King Henry II, retained by the Crown. He served as Assessor in the royal court in 1177 to arbitrate between the Kings of Castile and Navarre. He was granted restoration of the Castle and Honour of Arundel by King Richard I 27 June 1190, when he became Earl of Arundel. At an unknown date, he granted various lands in Quiddenham, Norfolk to Reading Abbey, Berkshire. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, Earl of Arundel, died 24 Dec. 1193, and was buried at Wymondham Priory, Norfolk.
      Tierney Hist. & Antiqs. of the Castle & Town of Arundel 1 (1834): 179-180. Barrett Memorials of the parochial Church ... in the Parish of Attleborough (1848): 12-41. Arch. Journal 22 (1865): 154 (undated charter of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Sussex to Reading Abbey; charter names Queen Alice his mother [Regine Adelize maths mee] Jocelin the castellan his uncle [avunculi], charter is witnessed by Reiner his brother [fratre]), 155 (undated charter of William d'Aubeney, Earl of Sussex to Reading Abbey; charter names Jocelin his uncle [avunculi]; charter is witnessed by Reiner his brother [fratre])). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 249 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1193: "Obiit Willelmus comes junior de Arundel in vigilia Natalis Domini ") Jour. British Arch. Assoc. (1867): 21-33. Delisle Chronique de Robert de Torigni 2 (1873): 63-64 (sub A.D. 1176 - "Qui Guillermus [de Albineio] duxit relictam Rogerii comitis de Clara, filiam Jacobi de Sancto Hilario, cum omni terra quam idem Jacobus habuerat in Anglia."). Doyle Official Baronage of England 1 (1886): 66-67 (sub Arundel). C.P. 1 (1910): 235-236,237 (chart) (sub Arundel). Harvey et al. Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 152-156 (Daubeny ped.: "Willelmus (nomen cepit in parliamento consulatus [sic MS.] Sussex et Arundell construxit capellam beate Thome in Wimondham et sepelitur in abbathia predicta) Daubeney comes Arundel ob. 22 H. 2. = [empty roundel] Matilda filia et heres Jacobi de Sancta Hillario relicta Rogeri comitis Clara."). Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 42; 93-94 (charter of Maud, wife of Roger earl of Clare dated 1152-73; charter witnessed by Richard brother of the earl and Conan nephew of the earl).
      Children of William d'Aubeney, by Maud de Saint Hilary:
      i. WILLIAM D'AUBENEY, 3rd Earl of Arundel [see next].
      ii. MAUD D'AUBENEY, married WILLIAM DE WARENNE, Knt., 6th Earl of Surrey [see WARENNE 8].”